It seems like we are going back to winter. yesterday the lake was nice and open and today it was more than half ice-covered. There was a decent movement of mergansers and gulls, but not much variety. Lakeshore Waterbird Survey Lakeshore Reservation, North Perry March 26, 2011, 700-1000 Weather- partly cloudy Winds- N 5-10, Temp- 20-23 F Barometer- 30.18-30.19, Humidity-68-60, Dew point- 11-12 Waves- 1-2 feet, Flight direction- east Ice 60% Canada goose 3 Gadwall 2 Lesser scaup 5 Common goldeneye 2 Red-breasted merganser 886 Bonaparte's gull 64 Ring-billed gull 384 Herring gull 42 Great black-backed gull 3 John Pogacnik 4765 Lockwood Road Perry, OH 44081 (440) 259-2751 ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]